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Suku TaphrinaHavainnoija
annieliveoakKuvaus
Oddly shaped soft galls on wild plum. Many seen and no two were alike. Near stream and boat launch area. Clearwater area. Plum shown in last photo.
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Tribus EucosminiHavainnoija
royaltylerKuvaus
appeared as a black moth. Patterns were not visible without the flash
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Calypogeia neogaeaHavainnoija
abelkinserKuvaus
I have used Eckel's treatment of Calypogeia in BFNA to key this observation. https://www.mobot.org/plantscience/bfna/V3/Calypogeiaceae.htm
I have included microscope pics of underleaves to help confirm or correct my ID.
I've copied a discussion from Eckel's treatment that describes the underleaves.
"The lateral leaves of C. neogaea are longer than broad (narrowly ovate) with a subacute to acute, sometimes bidentate apex, which separates the species from C. muelleriana and C. azurea, which have typically subcordate leaves, wider than long, with a more bluntly if narrowly rounded apex. The underleaves are distinct from all congeners in the underleaf lobes widely and the deepest lobed (midline from base of sinus to rhizoid-initial area in a very short series of 1--2 (--3) cells); they have rounded-acute, divergent lobes with lateral teeth or angulations high on the lateral margins. Examination of the youngest stems may best reveal the characters of C. neogaea.
In C. muelleriana, with which C. neogaea is vexingly confused, the underleaves are only divided 1/3--1/2 their length, with a longer series of (3--)4--6(--7) cells, with their lobes and sinus obtuse-rounded. The underleaves of C. muelleriana are 2.2--2.5(--3) x wider than the stem, showing their mostly entire margins clearly, with strong decurrencies, whereas those of C. neogaea are usually smaller, narrower, usually only 1--1.8 x wider than the stem or sometimes to 2.5 x in robust specimens, but clearly displaying distinctive acute lobes and lateral marginal angulations with decurrencies none or slight. Underleaves of C. muelleriana are suborbicular, but in C. neogaea they are narrow and strongly transverse (wider than long), sometimes reduced to a mere, highly ornate fingernail-shaving."
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Hyönteiset (Luokka Insecta)Havainnoija
safronKuvaus
On planted Corylus americana. The plant had several normal catkins but then these odd ones. Is it some sort of gall?
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Atlides halesusHavainnoija
alamb42Kuvaus
Wild eggshells found on some Mistletoe. The plant was on the ground under a pecan tree. We had some bad thunderstorms recently.
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Suku CalycomyzaHavainnoija
joemdoKuvaus
On Mikania scandens
Seen while completing plant monitoring with Steve Woodmansee in the Hole-in-the-Donut, Restoration Area 2009 East in Everglades National Park.
All of my observations from today: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2024-01-02&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&user_id=joemdo
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Heimo PhysaraceaeHavainnoija
jamestdoucetKuvaus
I'm going to guess that this is a fungi being devoured by a slime mold
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Havainnoija
annieliveoakKuvaus
spots on Fraxinus (ash). No poison use in the vicinity. Thistlewaite WMA
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Punalatvat (Suku Eupatorium)Havainnoija
pttrsnKuvaus
Seems like serotinum, but the leaves seem too sessile and so much serration to margin
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Aceria pallidaHavainnoija
annieliveoakKuvaus
Galls on Christmas berry, Lycium carolinianum. Nature Preserve. Grand Isle
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Taxodiomyia cupressiHavainnoija
isaac-mKuvaus
I don't know if this ID is right?
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Heimo EriophyidaeHavainnoija
amberenergyKuvaus
On Pluchea camphorata. Galls? Extreme drought + leafhopper damage? Virus? It affected all of the Camphor-weed in that area as well as a couple of other species of plants.
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Suku MarmaraHavainnoija
ashley_bradfordKuvaus
On Passiflora incarnata fruit. I’ve got the fruit and am watching the progress. Initial photos were at 12:36 pm; the close-up was at 5:34 pm.
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Heimo CecidomyiidaeHavainnoija
amberenergyKuvaus
On Mimulus alatus, Sharpwing Monkeyflower
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Elämä (Elämä)Havainnoija
brianwilliams1Kuvaus
Record is for the growths (galls?) visible on the plant.
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Elämä (Elämä)Havainnoija
kent_ozmentKuvaus
Black spots on sweetgum leaves (feeding damage, fungus, something else?)
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Suku CerocatusHavainnoija
bradmoonKuvaus
Cerocatus hardyi? For comparisons, see
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1297644 and https://bugguide.net/node/view/1231782
Also see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/82985704
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Suku PseudomonasHavainnoija
annieliveoakKuvaus
On Ambrosia artemisiifolia. Found during Catahoula NWR and vicinity butterfly count.
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annieliveoakKuvaus
Don't ask me how many elderberry plants I inspected in multiple locations. Doesn't appear to be common. Last photo shows the gall that I opened. Exit hole visible in photo series. Museum complex area in town of Opelousas.
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Suku EmpicorisHavainnoija
vanremsenKuvaus
specimen for ANSP 22:17
Distance between threads = 0.6 mm
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Suku TetraneuraHavainnoija
annieliveoakKuvaus
On water elm, Planera aquatica. Edge of bayou.
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Suku TetraneuraHavainnoija
cynodonKuvaus
Galls on Planera aquatica.
Not sure if insect or mite or whatnot so I'm starting at Arthropoda...
Observation for the plant:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/152314425
I went back to this exact same spot to get some galls to cut open and made a sister post to this observation, see here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/157798884
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Planera aquaticaHavainnoija
cynodonKuvaus
In standing water along boardwalk path in bottomland hardwood forest adjacent to lake.
See fruits in second photo. Not in the genus Ulmus as these fruits are nutlike and globular which instead indicates Planera. Planera aquatica is the only species within this genus in LA. Going by the key to Ulmaceae in the 2022 Flora of LA by Weakley.
Observation for the galls:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/152322171
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Macroderma curtisiiHavainnoija
davidenriqueKuvaus
On Ilex opaca (prev obs)
Some different spots were also found on the leaves, I think they're a different species (next obs)
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Neottia bifoliaHavainnoija
jeffwilson2Kuvaus
Yellow variant. Farther up the hill from bottoms than I expected as well
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Suku NeolasiopteraHavainnoija
amberenergyKuvaus
Large gall on Packera glabella.
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Suku MarmaraHavainnoija
wilpersmKuvaus
Sign of stem mining insect larva on Pennsylvania Blackberry. This looks like a "subcuticular mine" in Eisman and Charney's system (Tracks and Sign, 2010, pp. 406-407). Only this insect genus is discussed, though no examples from Rubus are given, so this is a guess.
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Sienet (Kunta Fungi)Havainnoija
kent_ozmentKuvaus
Tiny rusty bumps on needle of loblolly pine. Discoloration in underlying needle.
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Männyn Ruskoneulaskariste (Lecanosticta acicola)Havainnoija
kent_ozmentKuvaus
Something affecting loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) needles.
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jonathanclarkPaikka
Catahoula Parish, LA, USA -- Sicily Island Hills (near Rock Falls Nature Trail on JC "Sonny" Gilbert WMA) (Google, OSM)Kuvaus
Sicily Island Hills
